The Lost Manuscripts of Beatrix Potter
  • Sprayette
    January 13, 2010

    Girl’s argument and example are oh so wrong

  • AbusePuppy
    February 15, 2011

    But our sense of morality is not just a construct- it’s neurologically bound to us. Theft, murder, etc are universally reviled as wrong, even if the specifics of how we define them may vary. Moreover, animals of many kinds, most predominantly social ones, have similar sets of ingrained “morality” and will punish members that violate it.

  • L
    July 19, 2011

    Again, AP, that relates to their “social constructs” – just because they are animals doesn’t mean they haven’t developed a society. If murder were identified as being wrong by a “neurologically ingrained” structure, humans wouldn’t have wars – and squirrels wouldn’t kill each other over nuts.

  • Nexii Malthus
    September 14, 2011

    A neurologically ingrained structure doesn’t imply an extremely strict lawbook inside our brains. It could be a natural vague sense or some kind of concept, same way we feel hungry and have a thin sense of wanting to eat, which is only simply enforced into a stronger idea via nurture.

  • X
    September 28, 2018

    … squirrels kill each other over nuts?

  • Elliptical Reasoning
    December 10, 2019

    @X is this news?

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